From construction worker to reality star to podcast queen, multi-millionaire Vogue Williams’s career trajectory has been anything but ordinary. Here, she talks about being ‘royal adjacent’, her bond with Joanne McNally and why she really missed her radio slot covering for Ryan Tubridy Vogue Williams on stealing cash from her stepfather when she was young In the topsy-turvy world of showbiz, 14 years is a very long time. In 2010, I was dispatched to interview the cast of a new Irish reality show, Fade Street ; ostensibly, our answer to successful scripted reality shows like The Hills or Made In Chelsea .
The glamour quotient was predictably high all-round, and yet one of the core cast members stood out immediately. Vogue Williams was, at that time, a construction worker-turned DJ/model, and the girlfriend of Dublin street artist Maser. “She reminds me of Bill Clinton as everyone loves her,” Stephen McCormack, the show’s executive producer, told me at the time.
And he wasn’t wrong. At the Dublin hotel where we met all those years ago, tourists openly gawped at her. A man lingered nearby, mesmerised.
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